The Eight Treasures Bronze Bell Dance

The Eight Treasures Bronze Bell Dance is a traditional dance among the Tujia people. The Eight Treasures Bronze Bell Dance is also known as "Jie Qian" and is the most popular in Xuan'en area. Popularity. It is a form of song and dance performed during Tu teacher sacrifices. When the Tujia people pray for a bumper harvest and prosperity for people and animals, they make and return wishes to their ancestors and gods, and invite Tujia teachers to dance to the gods to "relieve money." Teacher Tu's dance "Jie Qian" involves holding a sword and a sword while singing and dancing. The movements are rough and agile. The eight copper bells attached to the end of the sword jingle. It is unique and popular, so it is called "Eight Bounds". "Treasure Bronze Bell" dance. He holds an eight-treasure bronze bell in his left hand and a master's sword in his right hand, singing a sacred song.

The Dong Song

The Dong people have a proverb that "food nourishes the body and songs nourish the heart". The most famous Dong folk music is the Dong Song, which is a multi-part, non-conductor and unaccompanied Dong folk chorus music. With its unique charm, it is mainly spread in Liping, Congjiang, Rongjiang, Guizhou and parts of Sanjiang, Guangxi. In 1986, the Guizhou Dong Song Choir went to France to perform.

Coming of Age Ceremony

The Dong people have a unique coming of age ceremony. A person has to roll in the mud three times on his birthday, once when he is five years old, once when he is ten years old, and once when he is fifteen years old. The Dong people have a saying: "Learn kindness from your mother, hard work from your father, and patience from your grandfather." A five-year-old Dong child will leave his mother's kind embrace and begin to learn labor and acceptance from his father. It is a hard training, so the mother will lead the child to the edge of the field, and the father will catch him on the other side of the field dam, while the child rolls through the mud. When he is ten years old, his father will take him to the edge of the field, and his grandfather will pick him up on the other side of the field (if there is no grandfather, a respected old man in the village will be invited). It means that the child has initially developed the habit of working. The next step is to learn from his grandfather, exercise his will, and develop patience. When he is fifteen years old, his grandfather will take him to the edge of the field. No one will pick him up at the field dam opposite. This means that from this time on, you are about to grow up and need to experience the hardships of the world by yourself and create your own path. life path. This is where the Dong style dance "Rolling in the Mud" comes from. Tujia bacon

Every Tujia family feeds pigs during the New Year, mainly to have meat to eat during the New Year. If they can't finish it during the New Year, the Tujia people make it into bacon, which is not only easier to preserve, but also has a more beautiful color. , put the bacon in the pot and cook it, the aroma will spread far and wide, stimulating people's appetite. It is one of the main dishes that Tujia people usually put on the table when entertaining guests.

The more famous bacon dishes include: steamed New Year pork with millet, stir-fried bacon with bream and broad pepper, sugar New Year pork, fried bacon with fern cake, cured hoof hot pot, etc.

Tujia Camellia Soup

Tujia Camellia Soup is a snack snack that is similar to tea soup. It is fragrant, crispy, smooth, fresh, delicious, refreshing and thirst-quenching. It is a favorite of Tujia people. It is a traditional and very favorite flavor food, so there is a folk proverb: "If you don't drink tea soup, you will feel panicked", "Three big bowls of meals three times a day will make you hard to work with." At the same time, drinking tea oil soup is a traditional etiquette for Tujia people to entertain guests. Whenever a distinguished guest comes, Tujia people will serve a bowl of fragrant oil tea soup as a treat.

Gongshui white pomelo

It is a high-quality pomelo in Xuanen County. In 1998 and 1999, it won gold medals in the state, province and country. It is a new variety of late white pomelo buds. The average single fruit weighs 2-6 pounds, and a 5-year-old tree bears 40-50 fruits, with a yield of more than 6,000 pounds per mu. It matures in early November. It has few seeds and most are seedless. It has a strong and sweet flavor and is suitable for development in places with an altitude of less than 600 meters.